Editing Ataulf Sachs (section)

===Familiy life===

At some point, Ataulf felt a natural longing for female affection. Instead of marrying a lady from the Imperial court, he sent his thralls to scan every nook and cranny of the Imperium for the most genetically pure female. They came back with a modest commoner woman from one of the Untarqtian Hives. Although she nearly worshipped her husband for giving her a life of luxury, he only really loved her chromosomes and was rather cold to her. Eventually, they conceived an heir who Ataulf named [[Wilmut Sachs|Wilmut]] after a xenophobic cult leader from the Age of Strife. He planned for Wilmut to take his place after his death and fulfil his dream of purifying Mankind, but the boy had something very different in mind. Where his father was obsessed with correcting genetic sequences and weeding out defects, Wilmut loved improvisation and experimentation. He saw the standard human genome as plain and boring and believed in his ability to improve on it. Such views angered Ataulf greatly, and the two quickly grew far apart.

Eventually, Ataulf gave up on his son, stopped homeschooling him and sent him off to a cadet school. This decision backfired spectacularly, as Wilmut was eventually selected to become one of the first Space Marines. Seeing his genetically perfect son turn voluntarily into a mutant left a profound scar on Ataulf's mind. He disowned the boy, tried twice more to conceive an heir, but only got two daughters. Eventually he decided to adopt an orphan carefully chosen by his thralls, but he could never really connect to a boy who didn't share his genes. His failed family life made Ataulf a very callous man, and he directed his frustration at fighting the remaining mutants of Terra.